The Philippines is sounding the alarm of a population crisis as excess deaths continue to surge while birth rates also fall.
The alarming situation was revealed in data from the Philippines Civil Registration System.
The government agency is responsible for collecting and maintaining vital statistics, including births, marriages, and deaths.
The data is obtained from vital events registered at the appropriate Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar throughout the country.
The figures are then subsequently submitted for encoding to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Provincial Statistical Offices of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
On a yearly basis, the PSA publishes a report on these vital statistics called the Vital Statistics Report (VSR).
The VSR relating to the year 2023 was only recently published.
If 2019 is taken as the last normal and reference year, there have been 908,566 fewer births from 2020 through 2023.
In addition, there have been 386,939 more than expected deaths.
The committee heard that not only have there been hundreds of thousands of excess deaths since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but there has also been a decline of nearly one million births in the country.
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